aptitude install syslinux mtools dosfstools2) Partition the thumb drive. I used fdisk to partition the thumb drive into one large FAT32 partition. The following directions are from memory but should be correct.

umount /dev/sdc1 # Never use fdisk on a mounted partitionfdisk /dev/sdc1d1d2d3d # These commands delete all partitions currently on the devicenp1 # This makes a new primary partitiona1 # This makes it bootablet1b # This makes it FAT 32wNow, I always overwrite the drive's mbr in case it was used for booting from grub sometime in the past. This is not normally necessary.

mv /mnt/iso/boot/isolinux /mnt/iso/boot/syslinuxmv /mnt/iso/boot/syslinux/isolinux.cfg /mnt/iso/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfgrm -f /mnt/iso/boot/syslinux/isolinux.bin # This didn't stop it from working for me, but I'm not sure if this file is necessary.syslinux /dev/sdc15) Cross your finger, unmount the flash drive, and reboot. If you get an error like "image linux not found" when booting, you forgot to correctly rename the isolinux files to syslinux.

I have not tested this yet, but if you want a persistent, encrypted /home on the thumb drive, the easy method would probably be to use fdisk to make one tiny FAT32 partition on the thumb drive and one larger ext2 partition. Then specify the ext2 partition using the directions in the "help" file to use an encrypted home.

Couldn't get the above going but did manage an "old style" copy all files into the top directory of the pendrive and point the syslinux.cfg to the new location (i.e. delete /boot/ and directory structure). Then it flies...........

.......boots a variety of eBox's (including the 200MHz one) and an eee 701 beautifully.

I'm a former DSL newbie and judged by my inability to achieve persistence with TC on a bootable USB stick I'm now a TC newbie as well :-(

Briefly; I've created a bootable 4GB USB stick using Unetbootin in WinXP - in fact I'm posting this via Opera 9.62 in Cloud/Internet mode - but I can't seem to get persistence in any of the available modes.

Ideally I'd like to set up persitence in Mode 4 (PPI/TCE) and any help to achieve this along the lines of a dummies guide would be much appreciated.

I tried the waitusb=7 boot option together with tclocal=sda1, downloaded a couple of TCE extensions, backed up to sda1 and rebooted to find no sign of the downloaded extensions on the menu bar or within the right click menu.

Until I can find a simple way of setting up persistence on a USB stick I'll content myself by playing with TC in Virtualbox within Hardy Heron.